# Apigee (Google Cloud) pricing (2026): plans, cost, and compliance

**Entry price:** $0 (free)/mo (Evaluation). Among the 8 api management we track it is the cheapest; median entry $0/mo.
**Domain:** cloud.google.com
**Free tier:** No · 60-day free trial
**Compliance:** HIPAA Yes · SOC 2 Not published · GDPR Yes
**Integrations:** Google Cloud, BigQuery, Cloud Logging, Anthos, GKE, Cloud Armor
**Best for:** Enterprise Google Cloud workloads; High-volume API programs; Regulated industries needing HIPAA/compliance; Multi-environment API lifecycle management
**Price tracked since:** June 2026

## Plans

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Evaluation | $0 | — | flat | 60-day free sandbox trial; no upfront commitment. Shared environment with limited throughput for prototyping and evaluation only. | cloud.google.com |
| Pay-as-you-go — Base | $365 | — | hybrid | $365/month per region (≈$0.50/hour), plus API call charges. Up to 20 API proxies per environment, 50 QPS, standard proxy only, 99% SLA. Standard-proxy calls billed at 1/5 of extensible-proxy calls. | cloud.google.com |
| Pay-as-you-go — Intermediate | $1460 | — | hybrid | $1,460/month per region (≈$2.00/hour), plus API call charges. Up to 50 API proxies/shared flows, 100 QPS, supports standard and extensible proxies. | cloud.google.com |
| Pay-as-you-go — Comprehensive | $3431 | — | hybrid | $3,431/month per region (≈$4.70/hour), plus API call charges. Up to 100 proxies/shared flows, autoscaled QPS, up to 85 environments per project, 99.9%–99.99% SLA. | cloud.google.com |
| Subscription | Quote-only | — | custom | Custom pricing, annual commitment, contact sales. Committed-capacity tiers (Standard/Enterprise/Enterprise Plus), higher SLAs, extended analytics retention. | cloud.google.com |

**Key features:** Pay-per-region environment model (hourly billed); Full-lifecycle API management with advanced analytics; Hybrid and multi-cloud deployment (Apigee hybrid); Google Cloud security and compliance (HIPAA eligible).

**Plan limits:** Base: 20 proxies, 50 QPS per environment; Intermediate: 50 proxies, 100 QPS; Comprehensive: 100 proxies, autoscaled QPS; Pricing is per-region — multi-region costs multiply.

Sources: 1 · Last verified 2026-06-15
Provenance: cloud.google.com/apigee/pricing fetched live (truncated on render) and cross-verified against official Google Cloud pay-as-you-go docs: hourly rates $0.5/$2.0/$4.7 x ~730h = $365/$1,460/$3,431 per month per region. 60-day Evaluation trial confirmed.
Canonical: https://frontdeskreview.com/software/api-management/apigee/
Cite: Per The Front Desk Review, Apigee (Google Cloud)'s entry plan was $0 (free)/mo as of 2026-06-15 — https://frontdeskreview.com/software/api-management/apigee/
License: CC BY 4.0. Price history: https://frontdeskreview.com/data/price-history.jsonl